[blisterpeanuts]

(Disclaimer: I'm 60.)

Young people are an excellent fit for technology jobs. They are quick to pick up new tech, enthusiastic, energetic, open minded.

They're less likely to own a house and have a family to support, are hungrier for experience and learning curve, so can work for less money. More willing to settle for stock options that may or may not pan out some day. Can relocate at a moment's notice.

Cons: very few. I would just say, today's young people, at least here in the U.S., seem not to have been trained to write and speak proper English. Their knowledge of history is shallow and they are lacking in some of the skills that my generation grew up learning -- fixing cars, wiring a light fixture, fist fights, cooking and cleaning. But some of them are backfilling from youtube tutorials so it works out.

[geowwy]

  > Young people are an excellent fit for technology jobs. They
  > are quick to pick up new tech, enthusiastic, energetic,
  > open minded.

I just wonder much we really gain from all these new languages and frameworks. Do they actually help or are we just spinning our wheels? These days the majority of us work as web developers – our job isn't much more than pulling data out of a database, generating documents, and sending them over the network. We've been able to do that for decades.

[mav3rick]

This is a refreshingly honest take. I'd love to hear your stories :)